Mystery of Russian artist’s death

Russia’s small but thriving street art community was in mourning last night. Pavel 183, known as the Russian Banksy, hanged himself. According to a Moscow paper, his real name was Pavel A Pukhov.

He used his work to encourage people to look at the world differently and smile in the process.

According to his website he was 29 and lived in Moscow. But then according to his website he also had a degree in “communication design”, something he denied in an interview with Russian media last year. Then he said that he had two other university degrees but refused to name his profession, saying that it was “my secret brush”.

As word of his death spread, Russia’s small but thriving street art community began mourning…

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